I never cared much for the Breath of Fire series, but man, I thought BoF4 was really good. I bought it on a whim for no reason at all, and I enjoyed it a lot. It rarely happens to me, but I actually was sad for the villain.

I ended up taking a job as a cashier at a Target, because it was basically that or be homeless. It's the worst job I've ever had. I hate everything about it. I really need to go back to school for something. If I keep working these terrible jobs, I may literally kill someone.

I'm sorta in the same boat, O. I had been taking care of my father the last few years and with his social security money added to what I make we were able to live comfortably, if not exactly lavishly.

Now I gotta cover the stuff he used to pay for and pay off the rather large electric bill he ran up in winter because he had to surround himself with space heaters everywhere he went (we have like 3 in each room) so I need to find another part time job. I've been just paying the minimum for the electricity, but once winter comes I'll have to be paying a lot more (and if I don't, I'll freeze)

I thought about a cashier someplace, but not being a people person, I'd probably end up punching someone out within a month.

At least I don't have to worry about being homeless though. And now have a spare bedroom should you ever need it

I'm terribly sorry for both of you. Hoping for you to get better is useless, I know, but that's all I can do.

And to follow that up, I had been sharing a bank account with my father and apparently my bank has now closed it. So all my money is frozen (or taken).

It works like this here as well. They temporarily freeze the account as soon as the owner dies, even if it's shared between multiple people.

And I feel your pain Axel. I wish I could say it gets easier.

Why even bother living, right?

the older you get, the more you get completely ignored

It's not like I was popular five years ago. Never been not completely ignored, might even say I got used to it. What I'll never get used to is being remembered how inferior I am to everyone else every time I take a single step outside. Sitting down or standing still are no different, no.

I started working on my review of Atelier Sophie. No, I don't know why I still bother, either.

I really wanted to cheer this page up, considering it's been almost nothing but depressing s**t, but it's late and my eyes are red and I'm tired and I'm definitely not in the mood for that.
Could someone else do that? We need more talk about cute animals. I have none, that's also why I can't.

I wish I had something encouraging or, better, helpful to say about finding a job, but I'm likely the absolute worst in the world at job-hunting. Any advice I give, if followed, will probably lead to my being blacklisted. I do at least hope everyone manages to cover all their expenses and avoid service suspensions or evictions. Back in 2010, I was nearly evicted due to a check lost in the mail, and it was a sobering, frightening wake-up call to how uncaring reality can be. They apparently made one attempt to inform me of the missed payment, an attempt that didn't reach me (supposedly, a note was tied to my doorknob--certainly the most secure, guaranteed method of communication), and since I didn't respond, proceedings to evict started immediately. Fortunately, my bank (who had mailed the lost payment) accepted responsibility for everything and paid all the fees I got charged . . . except there was no way to erase the blemish of the missed payment from my record.

I put in a job application at O's former employer.

You're talking about Walmart, right, not Howard Johnson? And speaking of Walmart and Target, I read recently that they increased their minimum wages to $10/hr, but Google still shows wages for them being under that. Nonetheless, it's far better than what I got paid for my very first job; my memory might be off, but minimum wage back then was $5.15/hr, and I was mildly pleased to be getting $5.50/hr working in a mall food court.

Everyone should buy Siralim 2 in that flash sale.

Strange that you didn't bring up the first Siralim, which was also in the sale. Is the sequel significantly better or something? Like Street Fighter 2?

Thanks for the video links, AxelMill. I eventually decided on a purchase of DBCS (PSV), the Taito and Cave DLC packs, and Cho Aniki 0, coming out to a little over $20. And naturally, right afterward, I find out that a pre-order I made months ago is unexpectedly releasing this month rather than next month, blowing up my budget plan. :(

I don't care much for a bunch of new ships if you only play through the same levels and fight the same bosses

Well, each pack comes with a bunch of newly made zones. Most are not repeats from the base game, unless you're referring to the fact that they're made from the same elements as zones from the base game. And, the new ships have mechanics totally different from Silverhawks and come with new music, as well. Seemed worthwhile to me, at least.

I discovered earlier today that Kemco has had a physical release for the Western PS4 and PSV editions of Asdivine Hearts. Limited Run Games published copies for both about a week ago (already sold out, of course). General availability notwithstanding, this must be the first physical release of a Kemco game in at least a decade.

I just have to remind myself that while the job sucks, not having one sucks more. The store itself is fine. The people that work there are really nice, everyone is willing to help each other, the savings available by being an employee is amazing - it's just the cashier job itself that blows.

Oh, and I might take my time and make a cool page to go with the review, upload it and link you to it, instead of copy-pasting a wall of text and nothing else.
Once I remember how HTML works.

Well, each pack comes with a bunch of newly made zones.

But Darius has always been about the bosses, what's the point of newly made zones if you still fight Heavy Jaws and Hard Wheels at the end of them and they look just as procedurally generated as every other CS and Chronicle stage?

Yes. So much so that it makes the first game completely obsolete.

It still looks extremely rudimentary. It's probably much more fun to play than it is to look at, though, so my point is moot.

Speaking of rudimentary, September 9th is the deadline for the XBLIG service, on that day you won't be able to purchase any more games.
I still have to decide whether I want to get something before then.

Playing the Senko no Ronde 2 demo reminded me how much I hate Senko no Ronde and Acceleration of Suguri and Touhou whatsitcalled. They're just a mess.

Well, I mean, all I did for the last three years was study HTML and PHP and stuff, might as well pretend it was worth doing so other than to make a couple of teachers happy, right?
Because in the real world, all they want is Java, and we did none of that.

Anyway, once I spend a few days creating the basic structure, I could make as many reviews as I want just by changing what's written on them and the pictures shown.

But I don't think I'm going to start a blog, I'd make that page just for fun. There's literally thousands of game-related websites, and my reviews are nothing special.
Better stay here and have 3 readers tops than none at all....or many readers that dislike what I write.

HTML and PHP seem a lot more useful than what I learned. Like 2 years of Pascal in high school, then in college I had 2 years of Fortran and a year of programming assembly on a VAX, pushing this and popping that. I did take, not on my course schedule, a single trimester (my college was weird) on C, which I guess served me somewhat well, a program I wrote is being sold on GOG as part of the original Wasteland. But that's about all I got out of it.

But I think you are underestimating how much a dinky blog gets read. If you get shown up on a search engine, dozens, maybe even scores of people might read it. Not enough to make money, but still...

Ignore the URL, I uploaded it on the website I made for the exams.
There's also has a "mobile" version, which you can otherwise check out on your desktop by making your window smaller.
Tell me what you think.

However, that rating really has no meaning if you haven't played the game (I guess) and until I noticed the tiny text explaining, I thought it was Canteen out of Dragon's Head (since that's what those things look like)

I'm changing how the info section looks on mobile. Didn't have time to change all of it, but now "Playthrough info" is placed below the title, and you have to click it to show what's written inside.
The rest of the section will probably stay below, but work the same as "Playthrough".
All suggestions are welcome.

that rating really has no meaning

That's the point. It's not supposed to.
Well, it actually was thought through, and its meaning can now be read below it (you can tell I don't know where to put that yet), but you can just take it as face value and move on. Or not look at it at all.

until I noticed the tiny text explaining

It really is tiny, especially on mobile. The color doesn't help.
I tried to make it slightly larger, but it didn't make much of a difference on smaller screens. Everything looks too small there, really.

You're still in Settings > Storage, right?
The Misc category is basically everything else that's not part of the other listed categories. The data of certain apps, text files, roms, anything.
I don't know how large your storage is, but for 50MB, I wouldn't bother.
If you really want to, use your file manager to check inside all the folders and delete what seems to be too large for you. Be careful not to touch the "Android" folder, as well as any folder or file that has a name you don't recognize.

Just popping in to let everyone know that I really am still alive, for now. Too tired lately to post, though. Haven't had time to read the Sophie review and don't know anything about phone directory structures, anyway.

But I think you are underestimating how much a dinky blog gets read.

Probably gets read a whole lot more than a wall-o'-text website about the plug-n-play games industry and market.

Anyone want to convince me not to use a proxy bidding/shipment forwarding site for some stuff at Yahoo! Japan Auctions that I've been keeping an eye on for months?

I wonder if it would be foolish to buy a refurbished Wii U off Nintendo's online store (Which everyone swears are brand new when they receive them, so condition isn't a concern).

Tempted to hook two of them up. The refurbished unit for disc based games and my original for all my downloads. That would spread the wear & tear across two units, easing my mind with so many downloads on my original Wii U.

I'm especially thinking about the fun in dealing with these gamepads when they get older, so a spare there would also be nice to have.

Shame how one of the coolest consoles to release in ages, has no damn games on it. Just a bunch of ports.

Doesn't that apply to every system? There's always a bunch of ports/remasters on systems. You should just buy a PC. It has far more exclusives than every console in existence, spanning back to the 80s.

Third parties have just stopped supporting Nintendo except with shovelware. And the Switch is sorta in the same place as past systems, somewhat underpowered compared to the Sony/MS console so it makes it harder to do current generation ports.